View full sizeCruz Martinez, Jr., 41, is being held on $10 million cash only bail in Pennsylvania, charged with the murder of 16-year-old Alishia Colon in her Kearny Home on Thursday.Hudson County Prosecutor's Office

A 41-year-old Pennsylvania man has been charged with murder and is being held on $10 million cash-only bail in connection with the fatal shooting of a 16-year-old Kearny girl on Thursday, Hudson County Acting Prosecutor Gaetano T. Gregory announced today.

Cruz Martinez, Jr., 41, of West 14th Street, Hazelton, PA, was charged late Saturday evening with the murder of Alishia Colon, 16, who was found shot to death in her Kearny home on Thursday.

Martinez, who was arrested on an unrelated warrant, is being held in Pennsylvania, and is awaiting extradition proceedings, officials said. He was charged by the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office with murder in the first degree, and unlawful possession of a firearm in violation and possesion of firearm for an unlawful purpose in the second degree, officials said.

The Wilkes-Barre, PA., Citizens Voice reported tonight that Martinez was arrested on a warrant for stealing an 80-inch television, valued at $4,248 from a local Walmart. He was charged in the Colon murder after Wilkes-Barre police received a telephone call from a New Jersey detective, the newspaper reported.

On Thursday at 6:20 p.m., Kearny police were called to the second floor residence at 253 Belgrove Drive in Kearny on a report that someone was shot, reports said.

Kearny officers found the victim, Alishia Colon, in her bedroom with a gunshot wound to her head. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene, officials said.

Earlier that same day, Kearny police were called to the area of 250 Belgrove Drive on a report of a street fight involving some of the victim's relatives.

The victim, however, was not involved in that dispute, officials said.

Edwin Mendez Jr., 37, of Belleville, was charged with unlawful possession of a weapon and making terroristic threats in the earlier scuffle, officials said.

Homicide detectives are still investigating any possible connection between the that street fight and the murder.

View full sizeKearny girl Alishia Colon was found dead in her bedroom last night, the victim of an apparent gunshot wound to her head, authorities said.Instagram

Ricardo Baez, Colon's boyfriend's father, said Friday that Colon was baby-sitting her younger brother and hid him from the shooter.

However, investigators have not confirmed if the boy was in the room during the shooting.